Joel Thompson

Joel Thompson (3 October 1760-8 February 1843) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NY 15) from 1813 to 1815, succeeding Peter Buell Porter and preceding James Birdsall and preceding Jabez D. Hammond.

Biography
Joel Thompson was born in Stanford, Dutchess County, New York in 1760, and he went to school in Smyrna before becoming a lawyer in Duanesburg and Sherburne. He fought in the American Revolutionary War before serving in the State Assembly in 1798 and from 1803 to 1804, as Assistant Justice of the Chenango County Court of Common Pleas from 1799 to 1807, as Judge of Chenango County from 1807 to 1814, and in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1815. He died in Brooklyn in 1843.